“We do have power and we do have a choice but I think we underestimate the power that we have. It saddens me that many people just go about their business every day without considering the impact of their choices. Even though I'm 100% plant-based, I've never taken the position of telling a person what they should or shouldn't do but I do want people to know about the miracle of plants and superfoods; just for them to eat more and better nutritious foods. If you can grow your own, find your own, or support companies by really voting with your money, that's a good thing.” –Darin Olien

How can the power of your wallet make a dramatic shift in the way the world sees, produces, and consumes food?

In Wellness Force Radio episode 234, Superfood Hunter, Founder of SuperLife, and Author of SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit & Eternally Awesome, Darin Olien, will walk you through several easy steps you can take towards behavior change and living for optimal health; the key to allowing natural detoxification through nutritious foods to become a part of your lifestyle; and why our food allergies and sensitivities, especially in children, have been increasing in recent years.

Discover how the superfood, Barùkas nut, of theBaru fruit from the Brazilian Cerrado (pronounced ‘sahadu') can improve your health, help others, and leave behind a smaller water footprint.

SuperLife's Barùkas Nuts

Barùkas are the healthiest nuts on the planet; literally a mini-cocktail of hard to find micronutrients and vegan protein. A single handful packs your daily fiber requirement, and it’s simply amazing how many healthy micronutrients are in each bite. But they’re not just good for you, they’re good for the world. Barùkas represent an amazing opportunity to reforest our planet and sustain indigenous communities on their land. The trees that give these nuts are called Baruzeira. They are found in the Amazonian savanna biome called the Cerrado (pronounced sahadu), which covers an area 3 times the size of Texas. It’s one of the most beautiful areas in the world. Unfortunately, this immense biodiversity is already being deforested to make way for cattle ranching. The growth of Barùkas can help put an end to the deforestation and preserve the original flora. Not only that, it will allow indigenous people to make a sustainable living off the land. It’s truly a win all around. For your health, the health of the planet, and the health of the world community. Give them a try and let us know what you think.

Supports the Superfood Conservancy, which is on a mission to support small farmers, get quality superfoods to market, and protect endangered ecosystems where superfoods grow around the world.

Discovering the Baru Nut with Darin Olien in Brazil

Listen To Episode 234 As Darin Olien Uncovers:

The bio-accumulation of heavy metals and electronic magnetic fields that are in our environment, food, and even ourselves.

How he came to be a Superfood Hunter not because he wanted to but because he felt like it was his mission to take on that role.

Why it's important to test ourselves and foods to see if there are heavy metals.

The actual process he goes through to research and test a product or a food to find out the nutrition content.

How he came to find the Barùkas nut of the Baru fruit from the Brazilian Cerrado.

All of the nutrition including amino acids and protein that can be found in the Barùkas nut.

Their goal to plant 21 million trees in the Cerrado to keep it from being destroyed and help the indigenous people keep their homes and culture alive.

“Every time your body is trying to stay in homeostasis and equilibrium, it's essentially taking in nutrients or also trying to detox something. On one respect, the body is doing everything it can to stay in that balance but if you're being exposed to something over time and you don't know it and you keep eating your regular food that has a heavy metal which no one has ever tested, then all of a sudden you'll start to question, ‘Why I do forget things?', ‘Why am I sluggish?','Why is my thyroid off?' and the list goes on ten and twenty years down the line.” – Darin Olien

“Then long-term longevity studies, researchers on the blue zones, and centurions know without a doubt that the research is in: believing in a higher power and having faith in something outside of yourself is good for your health. However, you have to stop the judgment; to believe in something but to then judge others for having a different belief is not helping. Get rid of the judgment, leave it alone, and live your life.” – Darin Olien

“We have to get outside, take off our shoes, and expose our skin to the sun without chemicals for periods of time. Don't be afraid of some of the great natural grounding vibratory aspects of the planet that help regulate and guide our inner systems. Just get back into the primal aspects of being exposed to the sunlight, feel the cold weather, or touch the real earth with your feet.” – Darin Olien

About Darin Olien

Darin Olien, the founder and visionary of SuperLife, is the first ever health and wellness expert to be coined a “Superfood Hunter.” He is known uniquely within the health and wellness community as an exotic superfood expert, supplement formulator, and environmental activist who travels the planet to discover new and underutilized medicinal plants.

Inspired by his travels around the world, he has created an individualized approach to achieving optimal health through small changes and daily habits based on the wisdom of global cultures. It’s his no-judgment, progress-focused, supportive approach that gets results.

Darin’s interest in food and nutrition began when a college football injury drove him to uncover better ways to heal his body. He realized there had to be a better option out thereafter he struggled to recover using only traditional Western medicine treatments that failed to address the healing potential of his diet and lifestyle choices. It’s then that he began to pursue a healthier lifestyle and deeper understanding of how hydration, nutrition, and exercise can truly impact the human body. Darin changed his major, studying Exercise Physiology and Nutrition. He now holds a Bachelor degree in this field as well as a Masters in Psychology. Today Darin is widely recognized as an authority and valuable resource on plant-based nutrition, supplement formulation and elite performance programs, which he has created for some of the top athletes in the world.

After 20+ years of travel and unwavering dedication to research, Darin published his book, “SuperLife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit & Eternally Awesome”in 2015 at the same time that the online SuperLife community was founded. One year later, the leading SuperLife 10-Day Nutrition program was launched, which has helped thousands successfully reclaim their health and experience the healing power of plant-based nutrition.